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r A LINGUISTIC ESCAPADE
When Henry W Longfellow Shocked
i Intellectual Boston
I In the original impression of Long
fellows poem of Hiawatha there
= were found in the seventh book the
three lines following
StraIght Into the river Kwasind
Plunged AS if he were an otter
< YDove as if he were a beaver
How this fofiTending preterit passed
the proofreader without protest is one
of those mysteries which have never
r been revealed But the form certainly
bes
whichI
were regularly published and sold
i Boston never received such a shock
since the days when Feuimore Cooper
Insisted that It was only in the middle
states that the English language was
spoken in its purity But that attack
came from an outsider Here the of
fender was of her own household was
1 In fact her favorite son What means
of suppression were resorted to will
probably never be disclosed A myste
noun reticence has always been pre
served In regard to this linguistic esca
pade The biographers of Longfellow
d to appear to be silent upon the subject
Measures of some sort must however
have been taken at once Dove was
expunged and the decorous dived
assumed its place and the whole trans
action was so completely hushed up
that no public seandal was created
Let him who possesses a copy of that
first impression continue to Cherish it
t Whatever may be its worth now the
time will come when it will reach the
value of the virtuous woman of Scrip
ture and its price will be far above
rubiesProfessor Thomas R Louns
bury in Harpers Magazine
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THE PALACE WAITED
A Suggestion That Changed tho Plans
of a Pope
° At a time when there was great suf
i fering among the people from lack of
food and when famine in its worst
form was threatened Pope Alexander
VI had made arrangements for the
erection of a magnificent palace The
best architects had been employed and
the plans had been submitted and undI
< epted and an accomplished builder
had been sent for to come from Venice
a man whose work had won for him
renown and who was known to be a
Just and upright man
The builder had arrived and at an
appointed time he waited upon his j
holiness to receive the plans and make j
his estimates There is one thing yet J
to be done said the pope There 1
has been no proper inscription or leg
legf
f end thought of to be placed over the
main entrance of the palace It should
beput above the great gate You have
had experience Do you think of an in
scription that would be appropriate
if your holiness would pardon me
for the liberty I might suggest one
most appropriate at this time
You are pardoned in advance said
the pope smiling Now what shall
It beI
Sovereign pontiff let It be thus
Command that these stones be made
bread
The pope was visibly and deeply af
fected He paid the builder munifi
cently for his expenses of coming and
I s going and instead of building his pal
> ace he fed the hungry ones of his
children
childrenPoverty
Qj Poverty Has Its Advantages
V AMman on the wane of life observes
that poverty has advantages and ad
versity its uses If you are poor you
can wear out your old clothes You
are excused from calls You are not
notI
troubled with many visitors Bores do I
not disturb you Spongers do not haunt
hauntII
t your tables Brass bands do not sere I
nade you No one thinks of present I
ing you Vith a testimonial No store
keeper irritates you by asking you
418 there anything I can do for you 1
Begging letter writers do not bother
you Flatterers do not flatter you
You are saved many debts and many
a deception And lastly if you have
8 true friend inthe world you are sure
to know it in a short space of time by
f hIm not deserting youHuntsville
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The Origin > of a Miserable Joke
Confucius had just met William Penn
atone of Cleopatras 5 oclock teas
b William Penn he said William
Penn Seems to me 1 have heard of
x you sir
Yes said Penn with a pleased
smile I am the man who was might
ier than the sword
Ah yes said Confucius You are
also the man who invented sleep are
you not
notNo
No said Penn HI founded Phila
delphia
delphin10h
10h yes said Confucius I knew
It was something of that klndSuc
cess Magazine
MagazineThe
The Important Item
s He Here Is a thrilling account of
the way in which that daring woman
clImbed to the top of a mountain
which Is five miles high Wonderful
Isnt it SheYes What did she
P wear2 3ey eland Plain Dealer
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Well Bred
4Do you speaI the truth 1
Not always
Why not always
I hate to be impolite Nashville
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My husband te the most unselfish
bTmon exclnhnrd Mrs Y5dungwife
I gave him a whole box of cigars
4he only smoked one and gave all
1he rest a way
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SWORDFfSHi
Overlord of the Sea and the Daintiest
Feeder That Swims
The swordfish is the overlord of the
sea Neither the whale the shark nor
any other giant of the deep can con
quer him in private fight or public
brawl Nevertheless he is peaceful in
the main and seeks the simpfe life
amusing himself often with worldwide
worldwideI
travel and with delicate
always gustatory I
tory Joys He is the daintiest feeder
that swims always kills his own game
and thereby insures its freshness
wherefore his flesh is a delight to the
palate of mankind and wherefore
again men go forth to kill him for
market and thereby at times fall upon
adventures that make the hunting of
I tigers and the shooting of grizzlies pale
into pastimes for the weary weakling
For the bold swordfish is still hunted
in mode as primitive as that the Eski
mo uses to kill the stupid whale and
often the sting of the harpoon changes
this luxurious ocean gastronome Into
a raging water devil quick to perceive
his advantage charging with the speed
of a bullet and the accuracy of a
swordsman up against the lone fisher
man in the dory who tries to bring
him to gaff Then must the fisherman
measure with exactness the lunge of
the monster avoid it by a marvel of
nice sidestepping in a plunging dory
or he will be spitted like a lark Wil
liam Inglis in Harpers Weekly
CHANCES IN GAMBLING
The Rule of the Unexpected at the
Tables In Monte Carlo
There are systems some will say
that will defeat the bank at Monte
Carlo I have not found one Two
factors settle all systems One is the
banks limit which prevents the dou
bling system so often advocated the
second the extraordinary idiosyncrasies
of chance Red or black will often
run in long series I saw fifteen reds
come up in succession on one occasion
seventeen uneven numbers in an un
broken series on another One even
ing on a losing day I was playing on
the first six numbers and persistently
for some hours the last twelve num
bers invariably turned up Once I saw
21 come up four times in succession
when mathematically it should have
taken 144 coups to make it show that
number of times and still more strange
that on this occasion each time it
came up a gentleman had staked the
limit on the dumber namely ISO i I
francs winning in ten minutes some
thing over 24000 francs One readily
sees by these instances the unexpected
very often happensin fact more of
ten that notArthur Hewitt in Bo I
hemian Magazine I
The Hog j
No other animal has been more modi
fied by civilization and none reverts I
more quickly to the original wild type i
than the hog Three generations of
running wild suffice to turn the
smooth round short snouted razor
back or hazel splitter thin lank leggy
lop eared snare snouted an Ishmael 1
in bristles running like a deer if run j
ning be possible fighting as only aI
wild hog can fight when battle is im j
perative The tusks which have been
half obliterated in the process of civi
lization get back size and strength
At a year old they are formidable at
two murderous at three or five more
moreI
deadly than a sword They afford a
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certain index of age up to six years
but are commonly broken in fights
long before that time Wild boars are
very ill tempered and when worsted in
fighting often revenge themselves by I
ripping the bark from trees as high as
they can reach asI
IHer ExerciseI
Many readers think insufficient exer r
cise is responsible for worrying moods j
Dare I whisper it writes one cor
respondent Though I am a married II
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woman with two bonnie bairns when
my worries and temper prove too much
for me I shut myself up in my room
and dance a wild Scotch reel I al
ways did It when I got in a temper as
a child as a sort of vent to my feel
ings and I do it still and probably I
shall continue to do so as long as Im
sufficiently energetic
Certainly a Scotch reel ought to pro
vide enough exercise to exorcise any
demon of worry if lack of exercise Is
the cause of ItHome Chat
A Bad Quarrel
Why dont you try to get him to
straighten up
Hes his own worst enemy
Well
Its pretty hard to patch up that
kind of a quarrelLLouIsvllle Courier
Journal
Describing the Climate 1
Is your climate changeable asked
the stranger
strangerNot
Not very answered Farmer Corn 1
tossel It keeps shiftin around a 1
little till it strikes a kind of weather
nobody likes then it sticks Wash
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Just Like Her
Hewitt I didnt know that you lived
on the first floor I understood your j
wife to say that you lived on the sec j
ond floor JewettIf you knew my h
wife you would know that she always
stretches a story Exchange
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Trotter who has been abroad So j I
laf ii Hl ChjrSf film tIy married
T > isg rjorntM YeN Trotter I suppose
t > V q1jitpPJ Miss Hnnioc Un
lnilh + Ptly they eih married some
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ELECTRICITY INTHE TEXTILE
INDUSTRY OF UNITED STATES
Wonderful Growth of the Use of Electric Power in the Colton and
Other Mills > of America
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In 1880 there were no textile mills
as the term is nor understood in
thef
American people did in the way of
manufacturing their own clothing
was mostly done in the household
the spinning wheel and the handloom
were utensils as familiar in the old
fashioned kitchens as the pots and
kettles of the housewife
The homespun t garments worn by
our forefathers were > fashioned out
of wool grown on the home farm
carded by hand washed in tubs slum
and woVen by hand fulled and finish
ed at home cut up and sewed all
by the joist labor of husband wife
I sons and daughters
IJhe finer clothes worn in those
days were all imported and as the
colonies grew and multiplied and
their consumption of English textiles
increased the manufacturers of the
mother country foresaw a wondrous
new market opening up before them
The desire to retain and increase
that market for textiles in the man
ufacture of which England already
led the world was far more promin
eat among the causes leading up to
the American Revolution than Us
historians have yet discovered
Garments Were Plain
The homespun garments of colonial
days were plain and wore like iron
their ingredients were indicated in
the name commonly applied to th >
clothlillcey woolsey It was a
fabric of woolen weft woven on a
linen warp Linen was muchmore
commonly produced in the household
than cotton fabrics and wool was
more in use than all other fabrics
combined
Cotton was a scarce commodity
in colonial American until long after
the Revolution It possessed a value
equal to that of wool and sometimes
very much higher What little of it
was used prior to the 19th century
was mostly imported from Barbados
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jWIien Samuel Slater started the first
American cotton mill at Pawtucket
in 1793 he insisted upon using cotton
from the Indies because of the poor
quality of the cotton then raised at
home No one dreamed when the
Shipping and Commercial List and
New York Price Current first made I
its appearance that America was
destined to become the cottonpro
ducing country of the world nor did I
Slaters little mill of 250 spindles
whicli lead then been in operation five
years give signs that it was the germ
of an American industry which would
consume annually within 100 years
more cotton than all the world was
then growing
The history of the textile indus
tries during the colonial period is no
where suggestive of the development
which confronts slid amazes the stu
dent at the opening of the 20th cen
cetlI
tury employing more capital and
creating a greater value of annual
product tItan any other group except
iron and sbeI
Our forefatheis realized how im
portant it was that the colonists
should learn to clothe themselves
They resorted to all sorts of exped
ients some of which smack strongly
of state socialisms to overcome the
difficulties in the way They offered
bounties to increase the number of
sheep and promote the growth of flax
In Massachusetts laws were passed
making it compulsory that each fam
ily should spin a given quantity of
yarn every year under penalties of
heavy fines
Gradually the household textile in
dustries assumed an importance
which alarmed the mother country
and the lords of trade attempted
various restrictive orders to prevent
and harass a development which
threatened to destroy the colonial
market for t7chi jf products of
British industry Parliament passed
act in 1774which was shortly after
the Arkwright inventions had inaug
urated the modern factory system
forbidding the exportation under
heavy penalties of any of the ma
chines used in the cotton silk wool =
en or linen manufacture
This statute which remained in
force with certain modifications fin
til 1845 was evidence ofa puerile
hope that the English people could
keep the fruits of inventive genius
bottled up in their little island whit
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A small grocery on First avenue has I
a souvenir for Wednesday It is a
tiny paper cornucopia of prepared
mustard which the proprietor who is
a foreigner hands tie customer with
las much display of courtesy as if it I
were a little salvor Iniife fork or I
z Was aii Wiith is aceeied in thu
tht
Iu oJu v iiivii It ia e4arld Is jI
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England permitted her sons ta car V
their brains across the water
Spinning Machinery
Slater brought his spinning ma
chineiy in his headirm the same way
Arthur Scholfield three years later
brought the first woolcarding ma
chine which he built and put into
operation at B field Mass in 1794
thus fixing the date of the beginning
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of the factory manufacture of wool
by machinery operated by power in
the United States American ma
chinists and inventors did the rest
thatl
the English statute did retard em
barrass and make trebly difficult the
early development of our textile fac
tories A century ago the American
textile industries were easily 100
years behind those of Great Britain
First Steps of Evolution
The first steps of evolution were
the fulling mi utilizing the power of
the small streams relieving the
housewife of the duty of finishing the
cloth and the cardingmachine Far
mers for miles brought their wool to
be converted in rolls ready for the
spinning wheel After Slater had
successfully applied the Arkwright
invention to the spinning of cotton
at Pawtucket little mills sprang up
allover New Engalnd which spun
both cotton and woolen yarns b
waterpower Hand looms wero still
in use in all these mills until 1813
when the invention of n power loom
by Francis C Lowell led io the build
ing of the Waltham factory and the
American textile industry was fair
ly launched Power spinning and
weaving machines were quickly 7 ap
plied to the manufacture of woolens
mad the death knell of tiic household
manufacture of textiles was sounded
Growth is Steady
From that day to this the growth
of the textile industry in America has
been steady and wholesome Only in
I the most remote country districts can
j the ancient spinning wheel be heard
of an evening spinning yarn for the
family stockings and mittens and the
old hand loom is now utilized ifat
all for the making of rag carpet and
rugsfhe
The textile industry began with
I water power but soon outgrew the
tiny mills scattered about the various
streams Steam power was neces
sary to run the large mills except in
cities well favored by extensive water
power and now olectricity is taking
the lead Electricity is peculiarly
adapted to textile mill work because
in the manufacture of textile fabrics
the power must be absolutely uni
form In addition to regularity elec
tricity is the cleanest power in the
world By driving large machines
and rroups of small machinery by in
dividual motors little or no shafting
and belting is necessary and any part
of the plant can be shut dqwn with
out affecting the remainder increas
ing the output and lessening the cpstj
of production
productionFirst
First in the World
The Columbia Mills Cohfiiibia j
South Carolina were the firsttex
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tile mills in the world to depend en
tirely upon the electric drive These i
motors manufactured by the General
Electric Company are still giving j
as satisfactory servic as the day 1
they were installed fourteen years i
ago i
Today a total of over 1000000 h c
p is used in cotton mills in the South e
This is more than a third of the total i
horsepower required Nearly 400
textile mills in the United States t
have been equipped with electricity <
by a single company using nearly 6 = f
000 motors and generating machines j
and utilizing pvjer 200000 electrical t
horsepower f J
The effect of the introduction of t
electric power in the Soufeern cot
ton mills has been tpimJ ease great
ly the number of mills as welt asthe
number of spindlos TIe capital now J
invested m cotton mills in the South
is estimated at 2500O1000 fin in
crease since 1880 ofV229QQO000 or J
1090 peCrcfirit Jh the t five years
the total spincUage of the United
States was increased from 23239
633 to g p9 i Udt 1y 313S4fli
Nearly PO 1Ir cent of thisip ease
was hi the 3 outhern Stntesv 7
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t MonumeiivtoPaupers
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Ernesto alt an the Syndic of
Rome sajis the Krankfurter Zeitung
recently had erected at his own ex
pense a marble shaft in the potters
field of the Roman cenieiory The in
scription states tli 7 t Ibe city mindful r
of its ohliganon to the iolustry < jf the
lowly romrrrs l oso svboso toil
b lC i1 oyerhae Tulls1 into ton1 f
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IN A SINGLE VOLUME
National Conservation Commission
> to Compile All Court
Decisions
WASHINGTON Nv 3Thek
Nov 3The Na
tional Conservation Committee is
compiling for publication 1a single
volume all the laws and court de ¬
cisions both State and Federal
Which relate to the use of inz
the United States This manual
will be of immense practical value
and it is somewhat remarkable con
sidering the wide number ol interests
which are touched btluse laws
that no such compilation has been
made before this
With the constantly growing de =
mand for InterState waterways the
increasing utilization of water power
for the development of electricity
and the widening areas o semiaric
Western plains that are being mad
arable lawsu
at the present time affect the in
terests ofa wide variety of inch
viduals and corporations timid in the
immediate future the number whose
business is directly touched will be I
yond doubt be greatly increased
Extremely Thorough
The work which the Nanonal Con
servation Commission is doing along
this line is extremely thorough and
the compilation will be complete It
will include all State and National
statutes and all court decisions which
concern water rights and kindred
questions on both navigable andnon
navigable streams and lak s The ci
tations will include all acts which
relate to riparian rights mid public
usufruct of water and all statutes
which concern mills pollution of
water interference with navigation
or the use of streams for power
damming of streams diverting
stream flow and so onin short all
acts which affect the use of waters
and their private appropriation t +
power or other purposes In the
J
book which will be included also some I
authoritative discussion of the prin
ciples involved in those laws
Absolutely Complete
The National Conservation Com
mission in its endeavor to make the
compilation absolutely complete and
accurate has called upon the Gover
nors of all the States for assistance
and the replies in every instance
have promised support Consider
ably more than half the States have I
already appointed State Conserva I
tion Commissions for the specific
purpose of cooperating with the Na
tional Commission in its work of
gathering the material which will be
embodied in the report to the Presi
dent the first of the year In the
other States the State officials whose
work most nearly touches this pro
ject are at work
A Single Volume
A single volume containing all the
laws which bear upon the use of
waters in the various parts of the
country will be an exceedingly useful
reference handbook It holds post
bilities of an een greater usefulness
in that it will exhibit within the lim
its that make heady comparison pos
sib e not only the general tendencies
of the laws and decisions on this
subject but the discrepancies that
exist between the regulations of dif
ferent States
StatesMonopolizing
Monopolizing Water
The fear is frequently expressed
that the tendency towards monopili
zation of water power which has
already made very great progress
in some parts of the country will re
St lt in practically all of this ex
tremely valuable natural resource
passing from the people as a whole
into the hands of comparatively a
few men with resulting higher cost
of water power and waterdeveloped
electricity to consumers and a tre
mendous advantage to the few pos
sessors If this danger is justified
by the present laws it is a matter
of great importance to make this
fact apparent at once For this pur
pose nothing could be more effective
than such a presentation of allthe
laws on the subject as that which
the Commission is preparing
Aiding Nature
Some women are just naturally I
homely and others trSai big pompa S
dours all the way around Nashville i
American hvi1leIi
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OPERA HOUSE 0
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The coming engagement of that
John Dunsmorc Opera Company
headed by Mr Dunsmore and Mine
Monti Baldhii at the Winchester Op =
era House matinee > and night Sat
urday November 7will Undoubt
wily be the greatest Ireat everp
felted to the music lovers of this city
Indeed it is not too much to shy that r
never in the history of American
theatricals has so pretentiotis aii ef r
fort been a one night staifd offering
The Barber of Seville Ross nj s
immortal comic opgra will be offered
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for the first time in English to the
atfe goers and by company of sin
gelS and comedians that have been >
especially selected for their fitnes K4
for this opera The Barber ofSe =
yule has for years been the key
note that has sounded for the as
piring writers of comic opera The v
work of Rossini and Beamarchais is
today to comic opera what the works
of Shakespeare is to the dramatic
field The delightful book and lyrics
of Beaumarchais sparkle with cane
edy that is clean and wholesomd and
bubbles forth as the crystal water of
a natural spring That it is given
full value in its interpretation it
need only be said that the chief com
edy role is in the efficient hands of
John Dnnsmore for many years
leading singing comedian With the r
Aarons Whitney and KlaV Er <
Ian gel companies Mr Dunsmore has
long been recognized as the best
American basso on the stage
ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED
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Paintsville is to have a 1000000
church building This was finally set 1
tied Wednesday when the tiustees of
the Southern Methodist church pur
chased the C B Wheeler property
at the corner of Third and Court sts
one of the most desirable locations
in our city The consideration is not
known Architects are now submitt
ing plans fob and within
the next month all the uotails will
be settled and it is probable the foun
dation will be constructed this winter
that the walls may be built in the
early spring The building must be t
completed by Augustl as the West
ern Virginia conference of the South
ern Methodist church convenes here17
in September Mr John C C Mayo
has contributed 5000 with the un
derstanding the membership raise an
equal amount The Womans Home
Mission Societyis pledged for 1000
and the membership will experience
but little trouble raising the balance
in fact more than half of the amount
is already pledged
A movement has been under head
way fox some time to unite the two
branches of the Methodist church
fine t large
largeand
church is to be constructed the Line j
cess of the undertaking is almost as
sured The combined membership of
the two Methodist churches would
make a strong organization The
members of both churches are work
ing hard to secure a union Paints
ville Herald
SWISS BALLOON WINS
BERLIN Nov 3The Aero Club
of Berlin Saturday awarded officially
the prizes in the international race
from this city October 11 The Swiss
balloon Helvetia is given first prize
the English Banshee second and the
Belgian Belgica third price Up to >
the time of this announcement the
Banshee had been regarded as the
winner of the race
PRIZES FOR AEROPLANES
PARIS Nov 3The National
of
Aerial League has offered a prize of <
2000 to the first aeroplane that1
travels from Chalons to Paris A
scientific paper called nature hqs
offered another prize of an equals
amount to the first aeroplane that
travels 100 kilometers six twos
miles in a straight line
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Just a Plain Commoner
Royal names for hotels ares ni
Umes the cause of peculiar inisundeiv A
alandings An aged farmer from the i
home county decided to make a visit
to Toronto It was the first tlinene
hid been at a city station and when e
betel crier hurried to him with the inv
terrogation King Edward the n wr
comer simply smiled as he answered
No sirThomas Cox of EramosaV
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Pep9s State Hanlc
CAPITAL TJO0OOO I SIS
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ibis bank began business less Oman three years > ago JI
I just in the bcgimmnof the financial clepres
y s ion Nptwithstan ding the bard times there has been J
a steady growth from the start in the n1i riberofoU if j ft 1
depositors and in the volume ofow business We 1
I enroll new n mPg every week We want yourS You
I are coV liiliv inyitr to np n an account with us Per
t sonal ffttcnion to all businessi t
1 H HODGKIN Cashier v j
Ct BROWN President L B COCKRELL Vice President Oi
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